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•J A wise selection from among old things is almost 
equal to the invention of new ones. 

€][ Time is more than money — it is life. — Sir John 
Lubboclf 

€| What misfortune in your pleasures has sent you to 
philosophy for relief? — Franklin 




€| " We are masters of the unspoken word : the spoken 






word is master of us." 



Joking decides great things, stronger and better oft 
than earnest can. — John Milton 

^SVjOI Avoid making important decisions when you are 
tired. — Luther H. Culick 



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€| He who has much looked on at the childish satisfac- 
tion of other people in their hobbies, will regard his 
own with only a very ironical indulgence. — R. L. 
Stevenson 

tj Be silent and safe — silence never betrays you. — 
John Boyle O'Reilly 

€][ It is an abominable thing for a man to commend 
himself. — Laurence Sterne 

<J Oh, marvellous are woman's ways, and most won- 
derful are her economies. — Celett Burgess 



*I Men don't understand, as a rule, that a woman 
likes to get used to them by degrees. — John Oliver 
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"So many gods, so many creeds, 
So many paths that wind and wind, 
While just the art of being kind 
Is all this sad world needs." 




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€]{ He is a hard man who is only just, and he is a sad 
man who is only wise. — Voltaire 

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1$ Our wanton accidents take root, and grow 
To vaunt themselves God's laws. 

— Charles Kingsley 

^ Blessed is the peacemaker, for he shall need the 
kingdom of heaven as a refuge. — "Cynic s Calendar" 

€][ Eternal vigilance is out of the question. Of that 
there is hardly enough available to purchase liberty 
with, — let alone life and the pursuit of happiness. — 
Ramsey Benson 

^ When I play with my cat, who knows whether I 
do not make her more sport than she makes me? — 
Montaigne 

€][ Fool, not to know that love endures no tie, 
And Jove but laughs at lovers' perjury. 

— Dryden 





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^f The greatest miracle of love is the cure of coquetry 
— La Rochefoucauld 




•][ Stevenson interpreted truthfulness as "not to state 
the true facts, but to convey a true impression." 

The beautiful seems right 

By force of beauty, and the feeble wrong 

Because of weakness. 

— E. B. Browning 



€jj *' 'Hope deferred maketh the heart sick' — so does 
speech deferred." 

^ "Happy am I ; from care I'm free ! 

Why are n't they all contented like me?' 

It is easy to say "I am so sorry for you!" — but dqj 
'your heart ache while you say it? — Amos B. Welli 

<][ Be true to your word anc LagpU ttPWork and your^ 
friend. — John B. O'Reilly 



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f^ He who seeks only for applause from without has 
all his happiness in another's keeping. — Oliver Gold- 
smith 




•J We find it hard to believe that the John or Harr 
who sat next to us at school, has got angel wings or 
now, and is one of the most distinguished soloists of 
the celestial choir. — Max Nordau 




^ Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute. — 
Josh Billings 

Cf The only way in which reading can form style is 
teaching us the use to which we can put our own natural 
gifts. We must have these gifts before we can learn 
the use of them. — Schopenhauer 

Who can not talk! — but who can? 

— George Meredith 

€J When a man is unselfish, no woman — not even the 
st — can compare with him. — John Oliver Hohhs 



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€| Go put your creed into your deed, 

Nor speak with double tongue. 

— Emerson 

One man is my world of all the men 

This wide world holds. — Christina G. Rossetti 

€[[ The angel and the devil are as brothers until one has 
gained experience. 



€J Do not think that years leave us and find us the 
same. — Owen Meredith 



•J " It is plain that you know women," said the earl. 
" I? " exclaimed the cardinal. " No; nor any living 
man/ — Arthur C. Smith 

^ Busy people are never busybodies. — " Cynics Ca 
endar " 

€J To attempt to make everything emphatic is to make 
nothing emphatic. — Archbishop Whateley 




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€J True bravery is shown by performing without wit- 
nesses what one might be capable of doing before all 
the world. — La Rochefoucauld 

flf Man, while he loves, is never quite depraved 
And woman's triumph is a lover saved. 

— Charles Lamb 

^ It is the nature of the case, and no one is to blame. — 
Abraham Lincoln 



•J The man who can govern a woman can govern 
nation. — Honore de Balzac 



€j[ Show me the man who would go to Heaven alone, 
and I will show you one who will never be admitted. — 
Owen Feltham 

•J Neither a borrower nor a lender be ; 

For loan oft loses both itself and friend, 
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. 

— Shakespeare 






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•I The life of a husbandman is honorable, is amusing, 
and, with judicious management, is profitable. 
George Washington 



If he had been as you and you as he, 
You would have slipt like him. 

— Shakespeare 

•J I don't say that men are not so constant as women, 
)ut that they have a greater capacity for seeing more 
than one side to a question. — Edna Lyall 



Take possession first and negotiate afterward. 
John Quincy Adams 



There are some stories in the papers that you hope 
are true. — M Life " 

A woman of the world always should have be* 
but should not be, in love. She should always ha\ 
had a grief; she should never have a grievance. 
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€J He who has lost confidence can lose nothing more. — 
Boiste 

^ The wisest man the warl' e'er saw, 

He dearly lo'ed the lassies O. 

— Robert Burns 

^ An emperor in his night-cap will not meet with half 
1 the respect of an emperor with a crown. — Oliver^ 
Goldsmith 



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€J They find it possible because they think it possible.- 
irgil 



•J So true is it that it is we who dignify our occupations, 
not they us. — Richard Le Gallienne 

<| It takes a certain amount of genius to get away wit 
a successful bluff.—" New York Times " 

€fl It is no more in a man's power to think than to look 
like another. — Benjamin Franklin 




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^ Whatever the passion, knowledge, fame, or pelf, 
Not one will change his neighbor with himself. 

— Alexander Pope 

•I Content to know that God is great, 

And Lord of fish and fowl, of air and sea — 
Some little points are misty. Let them wait. 

— Norman Gale 

What chastity is tew a woman, credit is tew a 
man. — Henry W. Shaw 



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Then give to the world the best you have, 
And the best will come back to you. 

— Madeline S. Bridges 



The independence and liberty you possess are the 
work of common dangers, sufferings, and successes. — 
George Washington 

t| In all our reasoning concerning men, we must lay it 
down as a maxim that the greater part are moulded by 
accident. — Robert Hall 



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€][ Men are not put into this world to be everlastingly 
fiddled upon by the fingers of Joy. - — Henry Ward 
Beecher 

•J A flattering deed is worth many compliments. — 
Celett Burgess 

^ After all is said and done, it would be a cold day for 
the women if there were not men to poke the fire. — 
Mrs. James Clarke 

<f The laws of conscience, which we pretend to be de- 
rived from nature, proceed from custom. — Mon- 
taigne 

€][ Society is now one polished horde, formed of two 
mighty tribes, — the Bores and the Bored. — Lord 
Byron 



•J Detested sport, 

That owes its pleasures to another's pain. 

— Cowper 



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•J You find people ready enough to do the Samaritan 
— without the oil and twopence. — Sydney Smith 

€][ Even with the most honest intention no man can tell 
e truth about himself. — Heinrich Heine 




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tfl " Every human being has a claim to judicious devel- 
opment of his faculties by those to whom the care of 
his infancy is confided/' 




•I " If Jack is in love, he is no judge of Jill's beauty. 



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We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow ; 
Our wiser sons, no doubt, will think us so. 

— Alexander Pope j£, 

I've never any pity for conceited people, because I 
think they carry their comfort about with them 
George Eliot 



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•J A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. 
— Benjamin Franklin 



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€][ Though some of us are poor, let us all be genteel. 

<J Cranford is everywhere where people have indi- 
viduality and kindliness, and where oddities are toler- 
ated, nay, greatly loved, for the sake of the individuals. 
— Anne Thackeray Ritchie 

C]J To live with twice the significance is worth at least 
as much as living twice as long. — Edward Howard 
Griggs 



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•I To fret and fume is undignified, suicidally foolish^ 
d theologically unpardonable. — R. L. Stevenson 



€J| Not but that Fate has always been anxious to pen 
a plain message pointing unmistakably the way, but im- 
patient Man crowds her, jogging her very elbow and 
shaking her writing desk, till her fair copy becomes 
mass of uninterpretable characters. — Benjamin West 

•J We fancy we suffer from ingratitude, while in real- 
ity we suffer from self-love. — Landor 



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•J You may be pretty sure that most Pandora chests 
are opened with a corkscrew. — " Saturday Evening 

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tjj A friend whom you have been gaining during your 
whole life, you ought not to be displeased with in a 
moment. — Saadi 



($ What gathering flowers in a wood is to children, that 
shopping in large cities is to women. — Auerbach 





f$ ' What we gave, we have ; 

What we spent, we had; 
What we left, we lost." 



€J Let me confess : As your wisest men did not appear 
unto me to be so very wise, so I found men's wicked- 
ness much less than the fame of it. — Friedrich Niet 
sche 

^ God only knows who is a hypocrite, ana who is not 
— Laurence Sterne 






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f| If every man worked at that for which nature fitted 
him, the cows would be well tended. — Jean de 
Florian 

f§ Who has deceived thee as often as thyself? — 
Franklin 

•J Let well enough alone — and there'll be no prog- 
ress. — " Silent Partner " 

•J While others are filling their memory with a lumber 
of words, one-half of which they will forget before the 
week be out, your truant may learn some really useful 
art: to play the fiddle, to know a good cigar, or to 
speak with ease and opportunity to all varieties of men. 
— R. L. Stevenson 

•J To tell men that they can not help themselves is to 
fling them into recklessness and despair. — Fronde 

•][ Look to thy letters and thy horse's girth 

Thyself — though served by all the slaves on earth. 
5 — A. Guiterman 



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1$ Keep your temper. Do not quarrel with an angry 
person, but give him a soft answer. It is commander 1 
by Holy Writ, and, furthermore, it makes him madde: 
than anything else you could say. 



€][ Contented wf little, and cantie wf mair. — Robert 
Burns 



Alas, how easily things go wrong! 

A sigh too deep, or a kiss too long, 

And then comes a mist and a weeping rain, 

And life is never the same again. 

— George MacDonald 



f Your instincts are never wrong, but beware of psy- 
'chic cramps. — Elbert Hubbard 

€[[ Conscience is harder than our enemies, knows mori 
accuses with more nicety. — George Eliot 

€J When you have an elephant on hand, and he wants 
to run away, better let him run. — Abraham Lincoln 



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€][ Men fear death as children fear to go in the da 
and as that natural fear in children increaseth with tales 
so is the other. — Francis Bacon 



t| It is not much he knows who will tell it all to 
woman. 

€| The least develop'd person on earth is just as im- 
portant and sacred to himself or herself as the most 
develop'd person is to himself or herself. — Walt 
Whitman 




{$ When a woman hath ceased to be quite the same to 
us, it matters little how different she becomes. — 

Landor 

tj A man's body and a man's mind are exactly like a 
jerkin and a jerkin's lining, — rumple the one and you 
rumple the other. — Laurence Sterne 

^ Tell your secrets and become a slave. — "Cynic s 
Calendar' Wk. 





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•J For though I am not splenitive and rash, 

Yet have I something in me dangerous. 

— Shakespeare 

€J He is our friend who loves more than admires us. 
— William Ellery Channing 



ff Even as one who wipeth his hands upon a new towel, 
as flypaper to the bare feet, so is a woman who asketh 
thee continually if thou lovest her. — Celett Burgess 



] A serious passion is a great educator 
Strong present feeling narrows our sympathies; stron: 
past feeling enlarges them. — Mallock 



€| Being a pessimist is not a pleasant duty, but some 
one has to shoulder it to point out the dangers of a too 
leerful optimism. — "Life" 



^ The country is lyric ; the town dramatic. When 
mingled, they make the most perfect musical drama. — 
Henry W. Longfellow 





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•][ I praise the Frenchman, his remark was shrewd, — 
"How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude." 
But grant me still a friend in my retreat, 

To whom I may whisper, "Solitude is sweet!" 

— William Corpper 

C][ It has been well observed that advice is not hated 
because it is advice, but because so few people know 
how to give it. — Leigh Hunt 

^ The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our age, 
payable with interest about thirty years after date. - 
C. C. Colton 

1$ When a man gits tew talkin' about himself, he sel- 
dom fails tew be eloquent, and often reaches the sub- 
lime. — Henry W. Shaw 




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"Men have many faults; 

Poor women have but two ; 
There 's nothing good they say 
And nothing right they do." 



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•I Dear little head, that lies in calm content 

Within the gracious hollow that God made 
In every human shoulder, where He meant 
Some tired head for comfort should be laid. 

— Celia Thaxter 

1$ Honesty is just simply a business proposition, so there 
is no moral credit to it. — "Silent Partner* 

If Some smack of age in you, some relish of the salt- 
ness of time. — Shakespeare 




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t| Spite is a little word; but it represents as strange 
jumble of feelings and compound of discords as any 
polysyllable in the language. — Charles Dickens 



^ He has a sneaking fear that Christianity has been 
supplanted by electricity. — Arthur C. Smith 



•J If eyes were made for seeing, 

Then beauty is its own excuse for being. 

— Emerson 





CATCHWORDS OF WORLDLY WISDOM 

\ Every person has two educations — one which he re- 
ceives from others, and one, more important, which he 
gives himself. — Gibbon 




€J The man who builds and wants wherewith to pay 
Provides a home from which to run away. 

— Young 

•J Adam knew a thing or two about making a bargain, 
— he swapped a rib for enough pleasure to last his 
male issue to the end of time. — Frederick Woltmann 



fll Get your happiness out of your work or you'll nev< 
know what happiness is. — Elbert Hubbard 



•J **A man is liable at any time to run across those 
who are nearly as well posted on a subject as he him- 
self is." 



•I If there 's another world, he lives in bliss. 
If there is none, he made the best of this. 

— Robert Burns 








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•J Every silver lining has a cloud. — " Life " 



tfl Sleep, riches, and health, to be truly enjoyed, must 
be interrupted. — Richter 

<J All men that are ruined are ruined on the side of 
their natural propensities. — Edmund Burke 



^ The pioneer in any movement is not generally the 
est man to bring that movement to a successful issue. 
Abraham Lincoln 



^ There are those who love love, and who love to. 
watch for it on human faces. — Richard Le Gallienne 

CJ Walt Whitman defended the sacredness of love, tl 
purity of passion — the passion that builds every home 
and fills the world with art and song. — Robert C. 
Ingersoll 



f§ Tell not thy previous loves to a woman, lest she also 
telleth thee hers. — Gelett Burgess 




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^ A face that has a story to tell ! How different faces 
are in this particular! Some of them speak not. They 
are books in which not a line is written, save, perhaps, 
a date. — Henry W. Longfellow 

fl[ He was a bold man who first ate an oyster. 

€f How much a dunce that has been sent to roam 
Excels a dunce that has been kept at home ! 

— Corvper 

^ When you have bought one fine thing you must buy 
ten more. — Benjamin Franklin 

€J Nobody's business is everybody's curiosity. — "Cyn- 
ic s Calendar " 

•fl By being happy we sow anonymous benefits. — 
R. L. Stevenson 



€J Talk about your financial depression — 't ain't 
nothin' to heart kinds ! — "Life" 

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€J Thank God for not making me a woman ! But 
He had, I suppose He would have made me just 
ugly as He did, and no one would ever have tempted 
me. — Abraham Lincoln 

f|I Be what your friends think you are; avoid being 
what your enemies say you are; go right forward and 
be happy. — Pomeroy. 

tJThe most perfect thing in the world is a woman's 
temper, but I am bound to say I have seen some tempers 
setter than others. — Henry Vincent 

<f Oh, let me live my own, and die so, too ! 
(To live and die is all I have to do:) 
Maintain a poet's dignity and ease, 
And see what friends, and read what books, I 
please. — Alexander Pope 

fj Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this: that 
you are dreadfully like other people. 

— /. R. Lowell 





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^ Despatch is taking time by the ears ; hurry is taking 
it by the tail. — Josh Billings 

€J By those who have spoken the most ill of me I 
have never been seen. — Madame Roland 



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<J The true sadness is not in the pain of the parting ; 
it is in the when, and the how, you are to meet again 
with the face about to vanish from your view. — 
Bulwer 



£ ^f His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might 
Be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was in the right. , 

— Cowley 




ew things are harder to put up with than the annoy- 
ance of a good example. — Mark Twain 

tj Ay, rail at gaming— ^'t is a rich topic, and affords 
noble declamation. Go, preach against it in the city — 
you'll find a congregation in every tavern. — Edward 
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1$ Make it the interest of others to be your friends. 
Command honors as well as bestow them. — Dr. 
Semple 



•J There lives more faith in honest doubt, 
Believe me, than in half the creeds. 






Tennyson 



" Friendship is constant in all other things, 
Save in the office and affairs of love." 

The world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy 
to those who feel. — Horace Walpole 



•J Men do foolish things thoughtlessly, knowing not 
why; but no woman doeth aught without a reason. 
Search her acts and learn her follies. — Gelett Burgess 




For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, 
His can't be wrong whose life is in the right. 

— Alexander Pope 




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€fl An idler is a watch that wants both hands ; 
As useless if it goes as when it stands. 

— Cowper 

.€[ Gold that buys health can never be ill spent, 
Nor hours laid out in harmless merriment. 

— John Webster 

•J The only way for me to get out of a tight spot is to 
get into it first. Some folks can tell exactly how a 
thing feels by touching it, but I can't. — Josh Billings 

€J In fact, she had unconsciously realized that weakness 
is human nature. - — Richard Le Callienne 

^1 am not one who does not believe in love at first 
sight, but I do believe in taking a second look. — Henry 
Vincent 



^ Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love, 
and to be loved, is the greatest happiness of existence. 
— Sydney Smith 



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1$ You are an Englishman. You may speak your own 
language. It is not the most flexible, but it is an e: 
cellent vehicle for the truth. — Arthur C. Smith 

€J All who joy would win 

Must share it, — Happiness was born a twin. 

— Lord Byron 

€][ Give me to mind my own business at all times, and to 
lose no good opportunity of holding my tongue. — 
Eliza Atkins Stone 



Happiness is the whole of culture, and perhaps two 
thirds of morality. — R. L. Stevenson 



•J How should great Jove himself do else than 
To win the woman he forgets to kiss? 

— Coventry Patmore 



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€| Doing wrong is simply following the line of least re- 
sistance, — as easy as falling off the Decalogue. - 
Life 



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1§ Beware of the spurious optimism which is part dulness 
of perception, part moral weakness, part intellectual 
timidity, part something worse — I mean, refusal to 
recognize approaching danger because open recognition 
would have to be followed by the worry or expense of 
prevention. — Mrs. C. W. Earle 

^ That which is unjust can really profit no one ; that 
which is just can really harm no one. — Henry George 

^ New customs, 

Though they be never so ridiculous, 
Nay, let 'em be unmanly, yet are followed. 

— Shakespeare 




oung military men, who want to reap the harvest 
of laurels, don't care, I suppose, how many seeds of war 
are sown. — George Washington 

^ Men must be taught as if you taught them not, 
And things unknown propos'd as things forgot. 

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•J Sick thoughts make sick people. — " Silent Partn 



<J God has not made a single creature who can under 
[stand Him. — Sir Thomas Browne 



What 's done we partly may compute, 
But know not what 's resisted. 

— Robert Burns 




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Oh, think of her who holds thee dear, 
And think that thou art all to her ! 

— Lord Byron 



^ The man who don't know himself is a poor judge of 
the other fellow. — Josh Billings 



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€| A woman's heart, like the moon, is always changing, 
and there is always a man in it. — " London Punch " 




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•J "Blessed are the peacemakers," is, I suppose, to be 
understood in the other world, for in this they are fre- 
quently cursed. — Franklin JJ0J 



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f^ Remember that tha boy who buys a flag with the 
money he intended to spend for giant firecrackers mul- 
tiplies his chances to grow up to be President some 
day." 



•f " On what small axles big wheels turn! ' 

CJ Good men kneel to God, the flag, their mothers, and 
their children's mothers. — Thomas W. Lawson 

1$ " How true it is that unto him who hath shall be 
denied, and unto him who hath not shall be given what 
the other man could use to such advantage!" 



^ Correct habits do not constitute goodness. — Ed- 
ward A. Ross 



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* The genius which creates and the imagination 
which appreciates are akin." 

€][ " A man's age commands respect; a woman's de- 
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flf Another day is another chance. — Ruth Sterry 

^ Then do not strive so hard, my friend, 
With restless hand and brain, 
That you will lose the relish for 

The prize you've worked to gain. 

— Peter Newell 



^ Every American woman explains that she is an ab- 
solute exception and is not like any other American 
woman. But they are all exactly the same. The only 
ling to be said for them is they are usually very well 
dressed and extraordinarily good looking. — George 
Bernard Shaw 



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' The patriotism of the ballot is more necessary in a \ 
free country than the patriotism of the bullet." 

It is not difficult, by concealment of some facts and 
exaggeration of others, to bias a well-meaning mind. — 
George Washington 



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€J " Misdirected energy is the modern formula for sin." 

1$ "Save the golden hours that go to the scrap-heap of 
Things Done Wrong." 

•J Had it been with the beard that wisdom dwelt, men 
would have taken counsel with the goat. — Mary A. 
Mason 

^ " Contentment is very often the reward of being 
commonplace." 

^ " Expectation without specification is as unjust as 
taxation without representation." 

€J Ah, I beg of you all, even you who are most serious, 
whose studies are most arduous and most positive,- 
never repudiate poetry. — Sully Prudhomme 

^ A fig for trials, a truce to care ; 

To-morrow 's before us to do and dare. 

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•J " All that I ask for is all that may be ; 
All that thou carest to give unto me. 
I am content to be this unto thee, 
And love thee for ever and ever." 



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•I Be not so severe that you are blamed for it, nor 
gentle that you are trampled upon for it. — Turkish 
proverb 

•J Since trifles form the sum of human things, 
And half our misery from trifles springs, 
Oh, let the ungentle spirit learn from thence 
A small unkindness is a great offence. 

— Hannah More 

€J Born with a silver spoon in the mouth — and some 
body hopes you choke. — " Cynic s Calendar " 

€j[ " We are most of us under-dogs ourselves, in the 
depths of us, and feel for each other the sympathy 
which comes from resemblance, the attraction of like 
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€| " Everything comes to him who waits " — except the 
particular thing he is waiting for. 

•I I thought so meanly of him for it, that, when I after- 
ward came into his situation, I took care never to imitate 
it. — Benjamin Franklin 

f$ Give every one you meet, my boy, the time of day 
and haff the road, and if that don't make him civil don't 
waste enny more fragrance on the cuss. — Josh Bill- 
ings 







C| To think is to see. All knowledge rests on deduc- 
tion, — a chink of vision by which we descend from 
cause to effect, returning upward from effect to cause. — 
Honore de Balzac 






•J " Beauty is the first gift Nature gives to woman and 
the first it takes away." 



€f Prejudice is ignorance of our fellows. — Eugene 
Wood 



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1$ " Save the aimless mornings and restless afternoons 
that consume themselves in wondering, wandering, 
wasteful doubt" 

•][ If mere ideas are not truth, they are at least the 
cloth of which it is made. — Dorothea Moore 



€J Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than 
it has with politics. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan 




No one but God and I 
Knows what is in my heart." 



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•J Respecting weather, I have always noted that there 
is nothing besides about which so much is said, and so 
little done. — Charles Dudley Warner 



Purity is not ignorance ; it is taste in the selection 
experiences. — Carolyn Wells 



€|[ " Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie." 



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€j[ Talk about troubles ! I got um an' had um, 
An' I know mighty well dat I cotch um fum Adam. 

— Joel Chandler Harris 

f$ In the home of the little boy who works in the city 
something is wrong or gone. " Perhaps he 's trying 
to fill a father's shoes, and men's shoes wabble on boys' 
feet — so do men's responsibilities." 



•J Every good man says " May I? " to the weak and 
14 I will " to the strong. — Thomas W. Latvson 



•J Although the world is full of suffering, it is full of 
the overcoming of it. — Helen Keller 







So, if unprejudiced you scan, 
The goings of this clock-work, man, 
You find a hundred movements made 
By fine devices in his head; 
But 't is the stomach's solid stroke 
That tells his being what 's o'clock. 



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•ff Judge not thy friend until thou standest in his 
place. — Hillel 

•J A just sentence may be unjustly executed. — William 
Perm 

•J True love is but a humble, low-born thing, 
And hath its food served up in earthenware; 
It is a thing to walk with, hand in hand, 
Through the every-dayness of this workday world. 

— James R. Lowell 



•J " Circumstances alter cases — particularly reduce 
circumstances." 



•J To be wroth with one we love 

Doth work like madness in the brain. 

— Samuel T. Coleridgi 



•J Each life must find its own revelation of religion, 
as each life must find its own revelation of love.— 
Marah Ellis R$an 







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^ We can never replace a friend. When a man is 
fortunate enough to have several, he finds they are all 
different. No one has a double in friendship. — 
Schiller 

fl| " There is only a few dollars' difference between 
ennui and laziness." 

fl[ Pessimism does n't work out. — Luther H. Culicfi 




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•J " Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in 
terrific bills." 



A cynic has said there are three things a woman 
can make out of nothing — a hat, a salad, and a 
quarrel." 



" Stay, stay at home, my heart, and rest; 

Home-keeping hearts are happiest. 
For those that wander they know not where 
Are full of trouble and full of care — 

To stay at home is best." 



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* There is in the worst of fortunes 
The best of chances for a happy change." 



<]J Oh, we are ridiculous animals; and if angels have 
any fun in them, how we must divert them ! — Horace 
Walpole 

€f A moderate amount of fleas is good for a dog ; it 
keeps him from broodin' on bein' a dog. — " David 
Harum " 




They have a right to censure that have a heart to 
ielp.— William Perm 

Oh, blessed are the children of endeavor in this 
lat they try and are hopeful. And blessed also are 
they who, knowing, smile and approve. — Theodore 
Dreiser 




•J You must have noticed that almost everybody ths 
amounts to anything spent his early life in the coun- 
try. — Eugene Wood 



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^ How unspeakably the lengthening of memories in 
common endears our old friends! — George Eliot 

^ Is there no way to bring home a wandering sheep 
but by worrying him to death? — Thomas Fuller 



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€][ Some sing their songs of woman's love, 

Of war and wine and treasure trove ; 

May Heaven their ways amend! 
But one thing most of all the earth 
Will serve us best in grief or mirth, 
A talisman of priceless worth, 
A loyal friend. 

— Harold Boulton 




he man who can ware a paper collar a hole wee 
and keep it klean, ain't fit for anything else. — Josh 
Billings 



^ A sad attribute of crime is that time softens it. There 
is a mental statute of limitations that converts possession 
into ownership. — Arthur C. Smith 

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Nothing is so incompatible with politeness as a trick 
f absence of mind. — Earl of Chatham 

flf As much as I can moderately spend : 

A little more sometimes to oblige a friend. 

— John Pomfret 



She remembereth anniversaries even to the day 
thereof; and by thy memory shall thy love be 
measured. — Gelett Burgess 

^ Temperament covers a multitude of sins. 

— Dorothea Moore 

^ To those who are ever ready to hold a brief for 
listress Petty Economy, this would I say : No Alex- 
ander ever won his empires by minding candle-ends and 
bits of string. — Machain 

Love is sunshine, hate is shadow, 
Life is checkered shade and sunshine. 

— Henry W . Longfellow 




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^ " If the thief lacks opportunity he thinks himself 

honest." rWt 

Don't return kindness, — just pass it along. 

— " Silent Partner M 

^ Writers of my stamp have one principle in common 
with painters. Where an exact copying makes our 
pictures less striking, we choose the less evil; deeming 
it even more pardonable to trespass against truth than 
beauty. — Laurence Sterne 

f^ " Do not lose your friend for your jest." 



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t| A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent 
one. — Thomas Carlyle 

Then gently scan your brother man, 

Still gentler sister woman; 
Tho' they may gang a kennin' wrang, 

To step aside is human. 

— Robert Burns 



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•][ Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; 
The proper study of mankind is man. 

— A lexander Pope 



We may be better after suffering, and we may be 
worse; but our condition must depend upon ourselves, 
and should never be laid to the nature of our calami- 
ties. — Lillie Hamilton French 

An ounce of convention is worth a pound of ex- 
planation. — " Cynic s Calendar " 

There is more joy over one sinner who makes up a 
quorum than over the ninety and nine who come reg 
larly. — Dorothea Moore 

^ The most fascinating women are those that can most 
enrich the everyday moments of existence. — Leigh 
Hunt 

^ Men flee to the city for solitude; the village is too 
sociable. — " Life " 



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•J Love 's too precious to be lost, 

A little grain should not be spilt. 

— Alfred Tennyson 

^ " Friends are lost by calling often and calling sel- 
dom." 



€][ For Love can hope where Reason would despair. — 
Lord Littleton 



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" I don't believe in kickin\ 

It don't bring one any peace; 
But the wheel that squeaks the loudest 
Is the one that gets the grease." 



•J If the men of wit and genius would resolve never 
to complain in their works of critics and detractors, the 
next age would not know that they ever had any 
Swift 

C| The time to commence is now, and the place is where 
you are. * 

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^ Don't git sorry fer yerself. — Alice Hegan Rice 

Oh, brain that did not gain the gold ! 

Oh, arm that could not wield the sword ! 
Here is the love that is not sold, 

Here are the hearts to yield you Lord. 

— Laurence Hope 

The language of friendship is not words, but mean- 
ings. It is an intelligence above language. — Thoreau 



^ Comets are probably male : their eccentricities can 
be computed. — Dorothea Moore 

^ ' The love of praise, howe'er concealed by art, 
Reigns more or less, and glows in ev'ry heart." 

C| " Two kinds of things thee must not worry about — 
the things thee can help and the things thee can not 
help." 

^ M A good friend is my next of kin/' 




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•J Hath man no second life? Pitch this one high! — 

Matthew Arnold 

•J They are as sick that surfeit with too much as they 
that starve with nothing. — Shakespeare 



•Jf " Consistency belongs only to the hero of the novel- 
ist. 

•J All my griefs to this are jolly, 

Naught so damn'd as melancholy. 

— Burton 

^ Although the idol of the press, 

The hero of the drama, — 
Yet in the midst of life's success, 

Its cheering panorama, 
There comes a time, whate'er betide, 

When every man and woman 

Must lay aside their sceptered pride 

And just be nice and human ! 

— Margaret R. Schott 



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Each mind has its own method. 



Emerson 



•J Be careful to be in the right company when you 
ask questions. — Crover Cleveland 

^ " — Notions such as take lodgings in a head that 's 
to be let unfurnished." 



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€JI It is, after all, the parents who need the training, 
and not the children. Most children would be good 
if it were not for their parents. — Sidney G. P. Coryn 



•fl Were half the power that fills the world with terror, 
Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and 
courts, 
Given to redeem the human mind from error, 
There were no need of arsenals and forts. 

— Henry W. Longfellow 

€]J There is nothing new except what is forgotten. — 
Berlin 








CATCHWORDS OF WORLDLY WISDOM 

^ For the night 

Shows stars and women in a better light. 

— Lord Byron 

<]J The judge, though knowing naught, must try to tell 
What plaintiff and defendant know too well. 

— Arthur Guiterman 



•J " A silent example is preferable to exhortation.*' 



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•J To mourn a mischief that is past and gone 
Is the next way to draw new mischief on. 

— Shakespeare 



€[ There are a good many real miseries in life that we 
can not help smiling at, but they are the smiles that 
make wrinkles and not dimples. — O. W. Holmes 

t]j " In crossing the desert I am told there are many 
dangers." 

" Friend, in sitting at home there are many dan- 
gers." — Arthur C. Smith 

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^ Where is the woman who does not speak out secrets 
when she is angry? 



^ The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action 
by stealth, and to have it found out by accident. — 
Charles Lamb 



^ Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that 
the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never 
come. — James R. Lowell 



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•J I believe in letting every man fight his ruster his 
own way. — Josh Billings 




•J ' Time to me this truth hath taught 

*T is a truth that 's worth revealing: 
More offend from want of thought 
Than from want of feeling." 



<J Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, 
than from the arguments of its opposers. — William 
Perm 




CATCHWORDS OF WORLDLY WISDOM 

€f It is rather harder to be pretty outdoors; there is 
so much breadth all around. — Dorothea Moore 

f§ Who wants to be a child again? Not I. Let me 
stick just at my present age for about a hundred years, 
and I '11 never utter a word of complaint. — Eugene 
Wood 






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To think well is to live well ; 
To think well is to be well." 



€f Everybody has his own theatre, in which he is man- 
ager, actor, prompter, playwright, scene-shifter, box- 
keeper, doorkeeper, all in one, and audience into the 
bargain.— Hare 

€[[ Curse on all laws but those which love has made ! 

— Pope 



•J " You may be sure a woman loves a man when she 
uses his expressions, tells his stories, or imitates his 
manner/' \ ; 



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Authors are partial to their wit, 't is true, 
But are not critics to their judgments too? 

— Pope 

€| " A college education never hurt anybody if he was 
willing to learn something afterward." 

€J Every resolution that can not be kept weakens 
moral grip. In other words, good resolutions are reso- 
lutions that are not too good. — Luther H. Gulick 

No man e'er felt the halter draw, 
With good opinion of the law. 

— John Trumbull 

1$ In life it is difficult to say who do you the most 
mischief, enemies with the worst intentions, or friends 
with the best — Bulwer Lytton 

^ Be prudent, and if you hear .... some insult or 
some threat, have the appearance of not hearing it. — 
George Sand 






CATCHWORDS OF WORLDLY WISDOM 



•J Most of our misfortunes are more supportable than 
the comments of our friends upon them. — C. C. Colton 

€J Choose an author as you choose a friend. 

— Wentxporth Dillon 

•J A good intention clothes itself with sudden power. — 
Emerson 

<[[ For there was never yet philosopher 

That could endure the toothache patiently. 

— Shakespeare 

^ * * They fought, they conquered, and then they com- 
promised. Having compromised, they must fight and 
conquer all over again." 

•J " For men were made to roam; 

My meaning is — it has been always thus, — 
' They are athirst for mountains and sea foam ' ; 
Heirs of this world, what wonder if perchance 
They long to know their grand inheritance." 

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^ A good man always votes, first removing his hat— 
Thomas W . Laivson 



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•J *' Use three Physicians 

Still — first Dr. Quiet, 
Next Dr. Merry-man 
And Dr. Diet." 

•J It were better to be of no church than to be bitter 
for any. — William Perm 

C| There is no man so good, who, were he to submit 
all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would no 
deserve hanging ten times in his life. — Montaigne 

€J That writer does the most good who gives his reader 
the most knowledge, and takes from him the least 
time. — C. C. Colton 







More things are wrought by prayer 
Than this world dreams of. 

— Tennyson 





CATCHWORDS OF WORLDLY WISDOM 






•J " When a man gets a check in a letter and reads the 
letter before he looks at the check, he shows breeding." 

tj For life is not to live, but to be well. — Laurence 
Sterne 



•J Simplicity is, of all things, the hardest to be copied.— 
Richard Steele 

^f If we resist our passions it is more from their weak- 
ness than from our strength. — La Rochefoucauld 

f$ Some of our weaknesses are born in us, others are 
the result of education; it is a question which of the 
two gives us most trouble. — Goethe 

^ He hears but half who hears one party only. 
Mschylus 



Let 's not unman each other — part at once ; 
All farewells should be sudden. 

— Lord Byron 



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•J There are a thousand people in the world that can 
hurt you, to one that can help you. — Josh Billings 

^f I am as poor as Job, my lord, but not so patient. 

— Shakespeare 

1^ Sir, a woman preaching is like a dog's walking on 
his hind legs. It is not well done: but you are sur- 
prised to find it done at all. — Samuel Johnson 

•J The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, 
and pleasure my business. — Aaron Burr 



€J " What *s past is prologue." 



Think all you speak; but speak not all you think; 
Thoughts are your own ; your words are so no more 

— Delaune 



C]J " I don't want to hit any man, the worst man, evei 
the scoundrel, one single blow that belongs to the sys- 
tem from which we all suffer alike." 





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CATCHWORDS OF WORLDLY WISDOM 

•fl " The judicial character is n't captivating in 
females." 





•J " Don't be ' consistent,' — but be simply true.'* 

fl I don't believe the Devil would give half as much 
for the services of a sinner as he would for those of 
one of these folks that are always doing virtuous acts 
in a way to make them unpleasing. — O. W . Holmes 



*f And must we part? 

Well, if we must, we must, and in that case 
The less is said the better. 

— Richard B. Sheridan 



€J A wide-spreading, hopeful disposition is your only 
true umbrella in this vale of tears. — Thomas Bailey 
Idrich 

•J " By examining the tongue of a patient, physicians 
find out the diseases of the body, — and philosophers 
the diseases of the mind." 



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€|[ It takes a sthrong man to be mean. Whin I give a 
tip 't is not because I want to, but because I'm afraid 
of what the waiter '11 think. — Peter F. Dunne 

tj " Leave your son a good name and an employment." 

^ We are all ready to laugh at the ploughman among 
lords; we should consider also the case of a lord among 
the ploughmen. — R. L. Stevenson 

•I It is the secret sympathy, 

The silver link, the silken tie, 

Which heart to heart, and mind to mind, 

In body and in soul can bind. 

— Sir Walter Scott 

^ It were endless to dispute upon everything that is 
disputable. — William Penn 

^ Love, then, hath every bliss in store; 

*T is friendship, and 't is something more. 

— Cay 




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^ "If you suspect him, 

Then reject him. 
If you select him, 
Don't suspect him." 

(J Let me carry some gift to those who have less than I. 



if Think of your wonderful immunity from harm if 
you mind your own business. J — Charles Battell Loomis 

t[[ Hardness of heart is a dreadful quality; but it is 
doubtful whether in the long run it works more damage 
than softness of head. — Theodore Roosevelt 

€][ There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, 
There is a rapture on the lonely shore, 
There is society where none intrudes 
By the deep sea, and music in its roar. 

— Lord Byron 

•J " If you don't do better to-day you '11 do worse 
to-morrow." 



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•fl It is a very great thing for us to do the very best 
we can do, just where and as we are. — Babcock 

€| Heaven gives our years of fading strength 
Indemnifying fleetness; 
And those of youth a seeming length, 
Proportioned to their sweetness. 

— Thomas Campbell 

€| " With sin was born humor, which could not breathe 

in a perfect paradise; humor, which sweetens misery 

ith a laugh, and sets our heaviest misfortunes in a just 

elation." 





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